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“I Have Never Seen Anything So Beautifully Magnificent”
1 CommentA review of Potomac Marble, History of the Search for the Ideal Stone By Nancy Spannaus March 17, 2023—In 1814, the British Army landed a humiliating blow against the United States, burning the U.S. Capitol building, the White House, and numerous military installations. Destroyed in the conflagration was the original […]Read More »
The Revolutionary Committees of Correspondence
2 CommentsEngines of National Unity By Nancy Spannaus March 11, 2023—Convinced that the ancient right of petition would not protect their liberties, the American colonies took a radical step toward independence in March of 1773: the formation of the Committees of Correspondence. It was from this innocuous-sounding network of communication established […]Read More »
Take a New Look at the New Deal
2 CommentsOn the 90th anniversary of FDR’s Inauguration By Nancy Spannaus March 3, 2023—It was March 3, 1933, the eve of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inauguration as President of the United States. On the one hand, the situation in the country was unprecedentedly bleak, with unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and despair at record […]Read More »
Industrialization is the Antithesis of Slavery
1 CommentSome Insights from Henry C. Carey By Nancy Spannaus Feb. 22, 2023—A recent post by my friend Lawrence Freeman on his blog Africa and the World provoked me to finally address the issue of the relationship between industrialization and slavery. The travesty of the current popular assertion that the United […]Read More »
Lincoln’s Commitment to Progress
3 CommentsA Report on David Kent’s speech at a Lincoln Birthday Celebration By Nancy Spannaus Feb. 15, 2022—President Abraham Lincoln’s unwavering commitment to putting our nation on the path to technological progress was the subject of the keynote speech at this year’s Lincoln birthday celebrations in Washington, D.C. The annual banquet […]Read More »
The 1790 Debate to Abolish Slavery
1 CommentBy Nancy Spannaus Feb. 10, 2023—Both abolitionists and slavery proponents understood that the future of the widely-condemned enslavement of African-Americans was not resolved in the Constitutional Convention. Did the federal government have any powers over that controversial institution, or was it left entirely to the states? Ask a Georgian and […]Read More »
Spannaus to Speak on Lincoln’s Legacy
1 CommentJan. 30, 2023—Americansystemnow’s editor Nancy Spannaus will address the weekly free speech forum sponsored by the Chicago-based College of Complexes this coming Saturday, February 4. Her topic is “What Every American Should Know about Abraham Lincoln.” The general public is invited to attend. The event details follow: Date: February 4 […]Read More »
Mozart: Sublime Composer of Revolution
1 CommentBy Nancy Spannaus Jan. 27, 2023—Two hundred and sixty-seven years ago today, one of the greatest musical talents[1] known to history was born. I refer to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), composer of all genres of classical music, both vocal and instrumental. Most particularly, I am pointing to his operas, which […]Read More »